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Carers' needs — the voluntary sector perspective
Author(s)	Pauline Smith
Publisher	NT Books, London, 2000
Pages	14 pp (Nursing Times clinical monographs, no 54)
Source	NT Books, Emap Healthcare Ltd, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ.
Keywords	Informal care ; Needs [elderly] ; Voluntary agencies.
Annotation	There are 7 million carers in the UK. Carers provide the care and support for a partner, child, relative or friend who is ill, disabled or vulnerable, which enables that person to continue to live at home in the community. Carers are unpaid, untrained and, despite the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995, largely unrecognised. Yet the health and community care they provide has been estimated to save the country billions of pounds a year. Drawing on the literature, this monograph emphasises the need for health and social services professionals to identify and acknowledge carers in their own right, to value their expertise and work with them as partners, to support them on their terms and to assess their needs - as distinct from those of the person for whom they care - in order to meet those needs in timely and appropriate ways. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001201217 B
Classmark	P6: IK: PK
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